Commission Implementing Decision of 23 May 2013 amending Decision 2009/821/EC as regards the lists of border inspection posts and veterinary units in Traces (notified under document C(2013) 2905) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/235/EU)

Commission Implementing Decision

of 23 May 2013

amending Decision 2009/821/EC as regards the lists of border inspection posts and veterinary units in Traces

(notified under document C(2013) 2905)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2013/235/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market(1), and in particular Article 20(1) and (3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organization of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC(2), and in particular the second sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 6(4) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries(3), and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Decision 2009/821/EC of 28 September 2009 drawing up a list of approved border inspection posts, laying down certain rules on the inspections carried out by Commission veterinary experts and laying down the veterinary units in Traces(4) lays down a list of border inspection posts approved in accordance with Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC. That list is set out in Annex I to that Decision.

(2) Denmark has communicated that a new inspection centre has been added to the border inspection post at the port of Esbjerg. The list of entries for that Member State as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(3) Following communication from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands and Portugal, the entries for the border inspection posts in those Member States should be amended in the list set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC.

(4) The Commission audit service (formerly referred to as Commission inspection service), the Food and Veterinary Office, carried out an audit in Spain, following which it made a number of recommendations to that Member State. Spain has communicated that the one port and several airport border inspection posts should be temporarily suspended. The entries for those border inspection posts set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5) Italy has communicated that the border inspection post at Brindisi port should be deleted from the list of entries for that Member State. Portugal has communicated that the border inspection post at Viana do Castelo port should be deleted from the list of entries for that Member State. The lists of entries for these Member States as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6) The United Kingdom has communicated that the border inspection post of Hull should be temporarily suspended. The list of entries for that Member State as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7) Following a satisfactory audit carried out by the Food and Veterinary Office in Lithuania, the approval of the road border inspection post at Kybartai, which officially opens on 21 May 2013, can be extended to live animals for all categories (U, E and O). The relevant entry for that Member State as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(8) Annex II to Decision 2009/821/EC lays down the list of central units, regional units and local units in the integrated computerised veterinary system (Traces).

(9) Following communication from Denmark, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria and the United Kingdom, certain changes should be brought to the list of central, regional and local units in Traces for these Member States, laid down in Annex II to Decision 2009/821/EC.

(10) Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1 U.K.

Annexes I and II to Decision 2009/821/EC are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2 U.K.

The amendment set out in point (1)(g) of the Annex shall apply from 21 May 2013.

Article 3 U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 23 May 2013.

For the Commission

Tonio Borg

Member of the Commission

ANNEX U.K.

Annexes I and II to Decision 2009/821/EC are amended as follows:

(1)

Annex I is amended as follows:

(a)

in the part concerning Denmark, the entry for the port at Esbjerg is replaced by the following:

‘Esbjerg	DK EBJ 1	P	Intercargo Coldstores ApS	HC-T(FR)(1)(2), HC-NT(6), NHC-T(FR)(2), NHC-NT(6)(11)
			E D & F Man Terminals Denmark ApS	HC-NT(6), NHC-NT(6)(11)’

(b)

the part concerning Germany is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the port at Cuxhaven is replaced by the following:

‘Cuxhaven

DE CUX 1

P

HC-T(FR)(2)(3)’

(ii)

the entry for the port at Hannover-Langenhagen is replaced by the following:

‘Hannover-Langenhagen

DE HAJ 4

A

HC(2), NHC(2)

O (10)’

(iii)

the entry for the port at Jade-Weser-Port Wilhelmshaven is replaced by the following:

‘JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven

DE WVN 1

P

HC, NHC-T(FR), NHC-NT’

(c)

the part concerning Spain is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the airport at Almeria is replaced by the following:

‘Almeria(*)

ES LEI 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)

O(*)’

(ii)

the entry for the aiport at Bilbao is replaced by the following:

‘Bilbao(*)

ES BIO 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)

O(*)’

(iii)

the entry for the airport at Gerona is replaced by the following:

‘Gerona(*)

ES GRO 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)’

(iv)

the entry for the port at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is replaced by the following:

‘Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	ES LPA 1	P	Productos	HC, NHC
			Animales(*)		U(*), E(*), O(*)’

(v)

the entry for the airport at Madrid is replaced by the following:

‘Madrid	ES MAD 4	A	Iberia	HC-T(FR)(2), HC-NT(2), NHC(2)	U, E, O
			Flightcare	HC(2), NHC-T(CH)(2), NHC-NT(2)	O
			PER4	HC-T(CH)(2)
			WFS: World Wide Flight Services	HC(2), NHC-T(CH)(2), NHC-NT	O’

(vi)

the entry for the port at Málaga is replaced by the following:

‘Málaga

ES AGP 1

P

HC, NHC(*)

U(*), E(*), O’

(vii)

the entry for the airport at Palma de Mallorca is replaced by the following:

‘Palma de Mallorca(*)

ES PMI 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)

O(*)’

(viii)

the entries for the airport and port at Santander are replaced by the following:

‘Santander(*)	ES SDR 4	A		HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)
Santander(*)	ES SDR 1	P		HC(*), NHC(*)’

(ix)

the entry for the airport at Santiago de Compostela is replaced by the following:

‘Santiago de Compostela(*)

ES SCQ 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)’

(x)

the entry for the airport at Vigo is replaced by the following:

‘Vigo(*)

ES VGO 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC(2)(*)’

(xi)

the entry for the airport at Vitoria is replaced by the following:

‘Vitoria(*)

ES VIT 4

A

HC(2)(*), NHC-NT(2)(*), NHC-T(CH)(2)(*)

U(*), E(*), O(*)’

(d)

in the part concerning France, the entry for the port at Sète is replaced by the following:

‘Sète

FR SET 1

P

HC(1)(2), NHC-NT’

(e)

the part concerning Italy is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the port at Brindisi is deleted;

(ii)

the entry for the port at Livorno-Pisa is replaced by the following:

‘Livorno-Pisa	IT LIV 1	P	Porto Commerciale	HC, NHC-NT
			Sintemar(*)	HC(*), NHC(*)
			Lorenzini	HC, NHC-NT
			Terminal Darsena Toscana	HC, NHC’

(iii)

the entry for the port at Taranto is replaced by the following:

‘Taranto

IT TAR 1

P

HC, NHC-NT’

(f)

in the part concerning Latvia, the entry for the port at Riga (BFT) is replaced by the following:

‘Riga (BFT)

LV RIX 1b

P

HC-T(FR)(2), HC-NT(2)’

(g)

in the part concerning Lithuania, the entry for the road at Kybartai is replaced by the following:

‘Kybartai(13)

LT KBK 3

R

HC, NHC

U, E, O’

(h)

in the part concerning the Netherlands, the entry for the airport at Amsterdam is replaced by the following:

‘Amsterdam	NL AMS 4	A	Aviapartner Cargo B.V.	HC(2), NHC-T(FR), NHC-NT(2)	O(14)
			Schiphol Animal Centre		U(8), E
			KLM-2		U, E, O(14)
			Freshport	HC(2), NHC(2)	O(14)’

(i)

the part concerning Portugal is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the airport at Porto is replaced by the following:

‘Porto

PT OPO 4

A

HC-T(CH)(2), NHC-NT(2)’

(ii)

the entry for the port at Viana do Castelo is deleted.

(j)

in the part concerning the United Kingdom, the entry for the port at Hull is replaced by the following:

‘Hull(*)

GB HUL 1

P

HC-T(1,3)(*), HC-NT (1,3)(*)’

(2)

Annex II is amended as follows:

(a)

in the part concerning Denmark, the entry for the local unit ‘DK00100 RØDOVRE’ is replaced by the following:

‘DK00100

GLOSTRUP’

(b)

in the part concerning Germany, the entry for the local unit ‘DE32403 Osnabrueck, Stadt’ is deleted;

(c)

the part concerning Italy is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the local unit ‘IT00410 TERNI-AREA ORVIETANA’ is replaced by the following:

‘IT00410

TERNI’

(ii)

the following entries for the regional unit ‘IT00010 UMBRIA’ are deleted:

‘IT00110	CITTA’ DI CASTELLO
IT00310	FOLIGNO’

(d)

the part concerning the Netherlands is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the central unit ‘NL00000 VWA’ is replaced by the following:

‘NL00000

NVWA’

(ii)

the entries for the current five regional units VWA NOORD, VWA NOORDWEST, VWA OOST, VWA ZUID and VWA ZUIDWEST are replaced by the following:

‘NL00001	NVWA NOORD
NL00002	NVWA NOORDWEST
NL00003	NVWA OOST
NL00004	NVWA ZUID
NL00005	NVWA ZUIDWEST’

(e)

the part concerning Austria is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for the local unit ‘AT00602 BRUCK AN DER MUR’ is replaced by the following:

‘AT00602

BRUCK-MÜRZZUSCHLAG’

(ii)

the entry for the local unit ‘AT00604 FELDBACH’ is replaced by the following:

‘AT00604

SÜDOSTSTEIERMARK’

(iii)

the entry for the local unit ‘AT00608 HARTBERG’ is replaced by the following:

‘AT00608

HARTBERG-FÜRSTENFELD’

(iv)

the following entries for the regional unit ‘AT00600 STEIERMARK’ are deleted:

‘AT00605	FÜRSTENFELD
AT00615	MÜRZZUSCHLAG
AT00616	RADKERSBURG’

(f)

in the part concerning the United Kingdom, the entry for the local unit ‘GB07104 LARNE’ is replaced by the following:

‘GB07104

MALLUSK’

(1)

OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.

(2)

OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56.

(3)

OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9.

(4)

OJ L 296, 12.11.2009, p. 1.